[ubuntu-uk] Netbook Battery Problem

[DaveGK]

Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:04 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
<...>
>>> To see if it's related, can you post the content
>>> of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info please?
>> Well it actually shows as /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info and contains
>>
>> present:                 yes
>> design capacity:         2200 mAh
>> last full capacity:      1964 mAh
>> battery technology:      rechargeable
>> design voltage:          11100 mV
>> design capacity warning: 0 mAh
>> design capacity low:     0 mAh
>> capacity granularity 1:  1 mAh
>> capacity granularity 2:  1 mAh
<...>
> OK so this shows that it's not the same problem as the EeePC because the
> EeePC shows "last full capacity: 100 mAh" because its ACPI
> implementation reports a percentage rather than an mAh value. And should
> therefore be a new bug, as you just filed :-)

Apologies for barging in, how do I view the contents of this file?
All I'm getting is "The file /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info changed on 
disk. Do you want to reload the file?"
Whether I click Cancel or Yes, the file displayed is still empty.
Reason for my interest is that I have three batteries for my laptop and 
while one is handled perfectly - 20 & 5 minutes warnings, automatic 
[proper] shutdown, two others do not report correctly (my guess) so 
often I get laptop just going off, without warning, sometimes even 
before the 20min warning.

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Cheers,
Dave